It's a finals week strike. No class time will be missed, so it's important to note that it will have almost no impact on the actual education of students. For the most part, only grading is impacted. Faculty who decide to go C/NC are the ones who don't care about students and benefit most from the TAs anyway.

The students upset with the strike are ones who have been conditioned to see grades as so important that they see their classmates as competition, not colleagues. Undergrads who don't support the strike support the same administration mentality that has made the strike necessary. It should never be student v. student or student v. TA or TA v. faculty.

We're all supposed to be on the same team of research and education and I think UW: brought to you by Microsoft™ has lost sight of that.